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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY L. BASOH, OF PASSAIO, ASSIGNOR'TO GEORGE FEDER, OF PATERSON, NEW JERSEY.

COMBINED COAT AND VEST.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 375,595, dated December 2'7, 1887.

Application filed September 21, 1857. Serial No. 250,305.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY L. BASOH, of Passaic, in the county of Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Combination Garments, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in combination garments for mens and womens wear, and has forits object to provide a coat and vest-shirt combined, and means for attaching thereto a collar and cuffs and wearing in connection therewith any form of tie,whereby a garment is produced which may be worn over an undershirt and the wearer appear fully dressed, and wherein the garment may be readily and expeditiously adjusted upon the person and as quickly removed.

The invention consists in the construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure 1 is an illustration of the garment buttoned upon a man, the coat being thrown back; and Fig. 2 is a front view of the open garment, one sleeve being broken away.

In carrying out the invention, which consists in a coat, A, and vest-shirt 13 combined, the latter is stitched 0r buttoned to the coat or secured in any other well-known manner to the coat inside at the sides, as shown at b, and the said vest is finished high at the neck and with a large folding collar, 1), similar to that ordinarily used upon flannel shirts. The collar 1) does not extend around to the back of the coat, but is made to terminate at the rear of the attached vest-fronts.

At or near the shoulderseam of the coat, where the upper part of the vest-shirt is attached, an opening, a, is left in the seam produced by the union of the vest and coat, at each side under the inner or vest collar, 11, the coat being provided with the usual collar, 0, which openings a are adapted for the passage of a necktie, D, around the neck. The said No model.)

tie may thus be brought forward beneath the button, d, is secured, and opposite said stud or button a similar stud or button, d", is attached to the inner side of the collar 12, at the overlapping or front ends, adapted for the attachment of a linen or similar collar, if desired.

It will be perceived that even if the collar section b were dispensed with the necktie would be held down-i. e., prevented from sliding up on the back of a standing collar attached to these buttons-by reason of the necktie passing through the aforesaid openings at. The collar-sections b. supplement this function, so that a necktie is held securel yin place when passed under them and through the openings a, as before described.

Tabs E, of any suit-able shape or material, are sewed inside the sleeves a suitable distance from the ends, to which cuffs may be attached in a similar manner as the collar.

It will be observed that this garment dispenses with the use of a shirt, and nevertheless presents the wearer fully dressed, either with or without a collar and ends, and for mens wear the garment is intended especially for summer, seaside, or athletic use.

The coat portion of the garment may be made in'any prevailing style, but preferably in the ordinary sack-coat form.

The garment is intended to be made of woolen or similar material without lining, although it can be made of any cloth, and may be lined, if desired, and is essentially a practical, convenient, and sanitary garment, and is intended to be washed the same as flannel shirts.

For womens wear the same general plan is adhered to, except that it is made to conform to the female figure. The garment may be used in this connection as a waist to be worn with a skirt of the same or different material,

or as an outside garment over a dress, and

pockets may be dispensed with wholly or in part.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is 1. Ida combination garment, the combina- 5 tion, with a coat proper, of the vest-fronts B B,attached thereto at their inner edges, I), and having opposite openings, a, near the upper ends of such edges, also having the rolling or folding collar-sections b,whereby the garment I0 is adapted for application of a necktie and for holding it in place While the garment is in use, as shown and described.

2. The combination, with the coat proper and the vest-fronts B B, secured thereto at their rear edges, of the button (1, which is secured to the coat in the space between the upper ends of said Vest-fronts, and the button 0?, attached to the inner side of the collar of said vest-fronts, as shown and described, for the purpose specified,

HENRY L. BASOH.

Witnesses:

WM. TODD, A. S. HARVEY. 

